Gettysburg Banjo 5 - Briggs' Breakdown and Briggs' Reel

Comment by Chuck Krepley on July 26, 2009 at 8:05pm

Awesome job, Dudes! I'm glad I was lurking on t'other side of the camera to catch that one live.

Comment by Carl Anderton on July 26, 2009 at 8:19pm

Chuck, it was a treat playing music with you all week.

Just to explain why all the Gettysburg activity all of a sudden: I went with my family and some mess mates to G'burg for the week; Greg and Chuck live nearby and Tim wanted to come down also so wegot together for a few days. This wasn't an official "Banjo Gathering." Hopefully a real Banjo Gathering is going to happen some of these days.

Comment by Carl Anderton on July 26, 2009 at 8:26pm

Oh, and I must add with pride...my g-g grand uncles Harrison and Charles Bull of the 124th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment fought on July 2nd on Houck's Ridge (right next to the Devil's Den) during the Battle of Gettysburg. They lost 82 out of 220 men present, including their Colonel, Augustus Van Horn Ellis.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustus_van_Horne_Ellis

Comment by Rob MacKillop on July 27, 2009 at 4:25am

You guys should apply for America's Got Talent. Big bucks await, boys...

Comment by Trapdoor2 on July 27, 2009 at 10:31am

Sure, sure. You guys decided to have your own gathering without us. We know where we stand. ;-)

Ya'll are having way too much fun there!

Comment by Steven Hedgpeth on July 28, 2009 at 1:04pm

You guys are so inspiring! You thoroughly demolish my oft-repeated dictum that two banjos is one too many... (Though my bandmates might tell you that sometimes just one banjo is one too many.) Beautiful playing--and tune selection. Makes me happy to be alive here and now, to be able to watch and listen, that despite the misery and horror of history and of life that is at the ground and fabric of banjo, I can know those tunes because of you and help keep some of them alive! It is a great thing you are doing. It's hard to imagine a more important contribution to the continuation of the banjo in our time.

Comment by Jonathan Cook on July 7, 2014 at 8:31am

Wow! First rate, gentlemen!

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